Posted on 09/17/2009 10:27:28 PM PDT by South40
Duo in Sting Video Say Their Effort Was Independent
The proposition was outrageous, outlandish, and right up James E. O'Keefe III's alley. Hannah Giles was on the phone from the District, and she was asking him to dress like her pimp, walk into the offices of the ACORN community activist group, openly admit to wanting to buy a house to run as a brothel, and see what happened.
It was serendipity, O'Keefe said Thursday. On that day in May, he was still burning mad after watching a YouTube video of Acorn workers breaking padlocks off foreclosed homes and barging in. "I was upset," he said.
O'Keefe, 25, packed his grandfather's old wide-brimmed derby hat from his swing-dancing days, his grandmother's ratty chinchilla shoulder throw, and a cane he bought at a dollar store, then drove from his parents' home in northern New Jersey to the District to execute the idea with Giles, 20.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
bttt
I can only imagine how many more ACORNs there are...
The audacity of corruption by this administration leaves one breathless.
Hannah and James are incredible. Great job and they are very brave.
The two of them did what every supposed professional “journalist” refused to do or any law enforcement agency.
Well, I see that the MSM is finally beginning to report on the biggest story in the country, fully a WEEK after everyone else in America already found out about it.
Quick! Someone get a copy of the Washington Post to “Sorry Charlie” Gibson. He said that he hasn’t heard anything about the 9/12 March on DC or the fall of ACORN.
Make sure to drop a copy off to Bill “75K” O’Reilly while you’re at it. He’s pretty clueless too.
Ping
Congress has taken action. Thursday the House voted 345 to 75 to defund the organization, handing conservative Republicans a major victory. They have long seen the liberal group -- which offers housing and other services, including voter registration, to the poor -- as a shady operation devoted to electing liberals and siphoning off taxpayer money for a permanent underclass.
No WaPo, it is a victory for the American taxpayer and a triumph for real journalism, something you a**holes have not done for decades.
I wonder if WaPo would have described the Watergate investigation and Nixon's resignation as a major victory for liberal Democrats.
Doesn’t take much to “fell” this group then.
Ridiculous! :)
Oh’Really claims that he and Glenn Beck brought this story to the public.
Kudos, I suppose, to the Acorn folks in Philly refusing to go along with it. Shame, shame on the rest.
Reset bort? Covert a swith?
Should be named O'Toole.....
In the artcle it says O’Keefe calls himself a progressive radical, not a conservative.
Isn’t it strange how many “O” people are prominent right now on the political scene? Obama, Oprah, O’Reilley, O’Keefe, Olberman? Relevant to nothing, but something I noticed.
Praise to the thugs in ACORN in Philly for not going along with this?
What other kinds of fraud, lying, money laundering, voter fraud and other crriminal activities do you think they do in Philly? Or in Philly they’re somehow completely different from all the other thug branches of ACORN?
Agreed. These two young people are JOURNALISTS. Can't say that about any of the MSM.
I thought this article was a semi-hit piece. It focused on the political affiliations of O'Keef and GIles- as though this was the most important aspect of the story- But, I guess that's OK.
They want to talk about conservatives as being against tax payer funded child prostitution rings?-good.
I assume then, that we can say that liberals are for tax payer funded child prostitution rings?
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